Institut für Molekulare Evolution
Willkommen am Institut für Molekulare Evolution an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Unsere Forschungsinteressen sind Endosymbiose, Zellevolution, Genomevolution, frühe Evolution, der Ursprung des Lebens und die Entstehung des Stoffwechsels durch H2-abhängige CO2-Reduktion an hydrothermalen Quellen auf der frühen Erde.
Aktuelles
Exhibition in the University Library:
Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life
Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition
Deutsch/English
Verlängert/Extended: Aug 27, 2023
03.07.2023 Graduation | Falk Nagies
Falk Nagies successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Patterns and causes of gene evolution over long evolutionary distances in prokaryotes ".
Exhibition in the botanical garden: Grün, Steine, Erde – Unsere Welt im Wandel
Exhibition in the University Library:
Der Ursprung des Lebens /The Origin of Life
Zweisprachige Ausstellung/Bilingual exhibition
Deutsch/English
May 10 – July 20, 2023
11.03.2023 Podcast | Reason with Science
William Martin speaks about the origin and early evolution of life
08.02.2023 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
The ancestral mitotic state: Closed orthomitosis with intranuclear spindles in the syncytial last eukaryotic common ancestor
Genome Biology and Evolution evad016 (2023)
doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad016
18.12.2022 Radio | rbb Radio Eins – Zwei auf Eins
Sven Oswald and Daniel Finger interviewed William Martin about the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) on rbb Radio Eins, a radio station broadcast by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in Berlin and Brandenburg, in the program "Zwei auf Eins":
28.10.2022 Graduation | Andrey do Nascimento Vieira
Andrey do Nascimento Vieira successfully finished his doctorate with the thesis entitled
"The role of nitrogen in the onset of metabolism".
26.10.2022 Publication | PNAS
Commentary on new findings in PNAS by Colman et al. about acetogen genomes recovered from serpentinizing hydrothermal vents
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2022)
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2216017119
21.09.2022 Graduation | Bing Song
Bing Song successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled
"On the origin and distribution of prokaryotic cellulases and metazoan oxygen sensing pathway".
04.07.2022 Publication | Life
Realistic gene transfer to gene duplication ratios identify different roots in the bacterial phylogeny using a tree reconciliation method
Life 12:995 (2022)
doi: 10.3390/life12070995
25.06.2022 Publication | Bunsen-Magazin
Origins as evolution of catalysts
Bunsen-Magazin (2022)
Cover-Story
21.06.2022 Publication | Trends in Plant Science
The greening ashore
Trends in Plant Science (2022)
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.05.005
HHU report: In German | In English
15.06.2022 Graduation | Jessica Wimmer
Jessica Wimmer successfully finished her doctorate with the thesis entitled
"Energetik und Stoffwechsel des letzten gemeinsamen Urvorfahren".
08.06.2022 Prize | Martina Preiner
Dr. Martina Preiner receives Düsseldorfer Förderpreis für Wissenschaften 2021
01.06.2022 Publication | Genome Biology and Evolution
Ancestral state reconstructions trace mitochondria but not phagocytosis to the last eukaryotic common ancestor
Genome Biology and Evolution (2022)
doi: 10.1093/gbe/evac079
30.04.2022 Podcast | Expedition in die Forschung
Bill Martin speaks about his research:
Wie startete das Leben?
In German and English
24.02.2022 Podcast | Night Science
Bill Martin speaks about how science works, reveals how he chooses a research question and boosts his creativity:
Bill Martin on paying attention
10.01.2022 Press | Rheinische Post
Rheinische Post, a major German regional daily newspaper, published an article about Bill Martin and his research on the origin of life:
Wie das Leben auf der Erde begann
